TIVERTON — Undaunted by 32 degree air temperatures, water in the low 40s and a strong west wind, a record crowd of ‘penguins’ dashed down Grinnell’s Beach at noon on New Year’s Day. With the tide dead low, they had to run a fair distance to find swimming depth but most plunged all the way…

TIVERTON — Tiverton broke ground on its dream for a new library Saturday as a crowd gathered at the site where the $10.6 million facility will stand. It was a gorgeous fall day, and “standing room only” for the ceremony, said Leon Hoyer, a trustee and chairman of the Library Building Committee. Sometime early…

TIVERTON — At exactly noon on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 an estimated 50 swimmers (and one Golden Retriever named Cooper) plunged into the frigid waters off Grinnell’s Beach in Tiverton. “It was 35 degrees, and there was a breeze,” said Greg Jones, Commodore of the Tiverton Yacht Club (TYC), which sponsored and organized the second annual…